Captain Powers
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Posted - 2007.06.26 15:11:00 -
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Game play in this game is becoming more and more limited. Variety in what you could do is being removed by whiners ( The hardcore players actually ). Also, the server hardware/software is showing that it can not keep up with server load as the population grows. Most MMO's have a zone where players come to meet to sell/trade/gossip. Jita has become that. It's rather natural that players try to come together to socialize. But the game design ( for a lack of a better term or lack of design ) can't handle it. Hardcore's say ban it but it's human nature that they are trying to stop. It's an MMO, you might as well hold your breathe.
Fleet battles a couple years were actually playable with lots of drones. Space mines are an example where the feature had to be removed due to lag design issues ( and later exploited ). The number of drones a ship could control is slashed to a fraction. Zones such as Motsu have lag so bad where it takes 20 to 30 seconds to reload guns/missiles that should only take 10 seconds. Yet that is where the highest quality lvl 4 command mission agent is located at. Don't flame the players that follow content that CCP designed that way, flame CCP.
This is my main point. CCP is trying to design a game that doesn't deliver in the long run. Noobs were intended as the lowest in the supply chain that PvP'ers could feed off of. But CCP is removing content that allowed Noobs an hour or two to gain anything. Rats use EW and now use capital ships. Mining is just a fraction the reward it formerly was. Missions take longer now to run and add in time to salvage and it's even longer. Noobs usually play the average of 20 hours per week or less. CCP and whiners are removing content that allowed them to do that. Plus add the fact that the game couldn't handle success is the biggest cruel joke. If the player base double or tripled in a month, the game would be on it's knees and maybe kissing the mat. Wow, great design CCP. First time I've ever heard of a company that couldn't handle being a success. Bah, time to see another video of an employee getting drunk and maybe puking on the street outside of a pub. Yeah, I'm flaming now.
The game was awesome years ago. But now I feel like a player in a wild west game where the sheriff can watch the average citizen get shot, the wife ( blanked ) and the outlaws get their guns removed by the sheriff, tells them to not be bad. Then the Mayor of the city comes up, gives them coins to repay for what the sheriff took from them. Yeah, that's a place everyone wants to be...
Come on CCP, design the game to work as intented. Stop the removing EW, NOS, Drones, etc that allowed the game to be played in ohhh so many different ways. Asking for the game to be realistic, is a pipe dream but stop this moving to making the game into everyone is the same and it's the number of players, not the knowledge of the players that make the difference. I enjoy the fact that could be used. If not, let's just make everyone step back 10 paces, turn around and the one with the fastest trigger finger wins. Oops, that's what it's becoming.
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